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Is the Collapse of Mud Shrimp (Upogebia pugettensis) Populations Along the Pacific Coast of North America Caused by Outbreaks of a Previously Unknown Bopyrid Isopod Parasite (Orthione griffenis)?

Brett R. Dumbauld, Auteur ; John W. Chapman, Auteur ; Mark E. Torchin, Auteur ; Armand M. Kuris, Auteur

Dans Estuaries and Coasts (34(2) MAR 2011)

A dramatic increase in prevalence of the recently discovered bopyrid isopod parasite, Orthione griffenis, likely introduced in the 1980s from Asia to the Pacific coast of North America, coincided with the 2002 collapse of a population of its bur[...]

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